THE Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) on Sunday rejected allegations it owed private hospitals P7 billion to P9 billion, calling the figures “erroneous and inaccurate.”“In summary, our initial data analytics show that the allegations of Dr. [Rustico] Jimenez on the alleged unpaid claims are erroneous and inaccurate,” PhilHealth said in a statement. This was after Jimenez, president of the Private Hospital Association of the Philippines Inc. (PHAPI), said in a radio interview that hospitals might shut down soon because of the failure of PhilHealth to pay its supposed debts. Jimenez said PhilHealth owed 15 members of PHAPI claims amounting to P7 billion to P9 billion pesos. PhilHealth however said it owed only P183.2 million in unpaid claims. “We immediately looked at the claims profile of a randomly chosen 12 hospitals in his list (as the others are with similar names still needing clarification from Dr. Jimenez) and found out that PhilHealth has paid them a total of P3.75 billion already for the period 2014 to 2018,” the agency said.

Source: Manila Times May 13, 2018 13:18 UTC